Re: TPM: hibernate with IMA PCR 10

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:03:21AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 6:30 AM Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:15:20PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >
> > > Enabling hibernate or IMA shouldn't be an either-or decision, if at all
> > > possible.  The main concern is that attestation servers be able to
> > > detect hibernation and possibly the loss of measurement
> > > history.  Luckily, although the PCRs are reset, the TPM
> > > pcrUpdateCounter is not.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate including a "hibernate" marker, similar to the
> > > "boot_aggregate".
> >
> > Yeah, I guess that would not do harm.
> 
> I think I understand it. It's pretty much exactly a boot_aggregate
> marker that we want, correct?
> 
> Should it have its own name, or is it sufficient to simply infer that
> a boot_aggregate marker that isn't the first item in the list must
> come from hibernate resume?

I think it should have its own name, because a subsequent boot_aggregate
is inserted when we kexec into a new kernel.


J.

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